LABORATORY FOR VISIONARY ARCHITECTURE

LAVA SCREENS NEW OFFICES IN MELBOURNE

July 10, 2011

A new office fit out in Melbourne features screens designed by LAVA for Schiavello's Climate range.The workspace at 500 Collins St, Melbourne for pharmaceutical and medication delivery company, Hospira, was designed by interior architecture consultancy Artillery and used Schiavello's latest workplace program, Climate, for all 190 work-points.LAVA's 'forest' markers were chosen as the screens to accompany Climate; they were chosen in meadow, a vibrant green shade, invoking the rainforest.

YOUTH HOSTEL REIMAGINED

10 November, 2011

LAVA has created a new typology for youth hostels with the revisioning of the Berchtesgaden near Munich, Germany.Gone are the daggy dormitory rooms and impersonal spaces of your typical hostel.The new design features individualised rooms, bold colours, local materials and craftsmanship, and multipurpose zones. The sustainable makeover includes a low energy facade, floor heating, and the installation of a bimass pellet heating system. Built‐in furniture and integrated storage avoids the ubiquitous barracks style environment.The hostel refurbishment was a unique opportunity to explore some of LAVA's experiments in space and apply sustainable technologies to an existing building.And if you want to sleep in one of LAVA's funky new bedrooms check out the hostel site http://www.design-jugendherberge-berchtesgaden.de/

LAVA DESIGNS MARTIAN EMBASSY IN SYDNEY

Due to be open in mid 2012 the project includes a spaceship like portal system that oscillates through the length of the interior to a leafy rear courtyard. State of the art lighting, sound and fabrication animate a display, shop and writing workshop for up to 30 students and staff. The design also allows configuration of the space to support launches, talks and events that support the not-for-profit program of the space.

NEW NATIONAL STADIUM FOR ETHIOPIAN FOOTBALL FANS

Football and athletics-loving Ethiopians will have a new FIFA and Olympic-standard 60,000 seat stadium in Addis Ababa thanks to a competition winning design combining local identity with new

technology.

LAVA and DESIGNSPORT collaborated with local Ethiopian firm JDAW to win the international architecture competition for a national stadium and sports village, awarded by the Federal Sport Commission, Ethiopia.

Construction is due to start in 2014.

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NEW DESIGNS FOR 1920S CABARET THEATRE BERLIN

LAVA is creating the new interior spaces for an old cabaret theatre dating from the roaring '20s. The abandoned 1920s cabaret theatre has been recently uncovered in the heart of Berlin.

The music hall theatre has been buried in 30 tonnes of rubble since 1934 when it closed, perhaps as part of a crackdown on the cabaret scene by the Nazi regime.

Discovered by accident by Dirk Moritz of the Moritz Gruppe, the three level musical hall and restaurant was a cabaret venue and featured a grand ballroom, a theatre, beautiful wall paintings and vaulted stuccoed ceilings.

Project developers, MORITZ GRUPPE, will renovate the three story building, called the SECRET GARDEN, which will comprise spaces for small scale performances and exhibitions, studios, meetings and conferences, and luxury apartments for short term and executive rental.

SUZHOU ZOO MASTERPLAN AND YEAR OF THE SNAKE

9 Februrary 2013

LAVA was short listed with 5 other international firms to design the Suzhou Zoo Masterplan.

We were very excited about the opportunity to combine our interest in nature and technology. We didn’t end up winning but thought we’d share this image of the zoo reception and entrance [a 'birds nest' of bamboo] with you.

With our partners Shanghai Landscape Design Institute and Battle McCarthy we took the competition brief from being a 'zoo beside a botanical garden and lake' to becoming a hub for applied bio-tech research.

While we didn’t make special provisions for zodiac animals who knows what snakes may slither into the zoo this year!

We wish everybody a happy 2013 – the year of the snake

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NEW SCIENCE PARK ANNOUNCED

31 OCTOBER 2013

LAVA signed an agreement for a new technology park near Wuhan in Hubei province China last night. A ceremony was held in conjunction with the Hubei Sydney Trade and investment fair in Sydney. A great event!!

More details soon!

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LAVA JOINS THE BEAMS ARTS FESTIVAL

Saturday 20 September 2014. LAVA's Sydney office is pleased to be part of the 2014 BEAMS ARTS FESTIVAL.

LAVA will create a site specific digital origami installation and there will be a few digital origami tigers on the prowl.

ONE BRIGHT NIGHT IN CHIPPENDALE takes place on Saturday 20 September 2014 from 5-10pm.

The BEAMS Arts Festival will once again immerse the laneways of Chippendale with 350 creatives working across a range of artforms under the theme of 'Utopia'. The works will mirror both personal and collective concepts of Utopia to conceive a "wondrous paradise nestled in the heart of the CBD".

Bosse says: LAVA is thrilled to be part of BEAM in 2014. As recent arrivals to the Chippendale precinct we love being in the centre of cutting edge creativity in this great city. As the next generation of architects exploring new typologies and approaches to sustainable design we are totally behind this year’s theme of Utopia – we hope our origami installations, inspired by nature’s own structural systems, will encourage people to see that the answer to efficient and beautiful design is found in: NATURE!

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PHILLIPS HEADQUARTERS ALMOST FINISHED

3 MARCH 2015

Tobias Wallisser will be one of the curators for an international symposium in Ludwigsburg in October. "Raumwelten" examines Scenography, Architecture and Media: How do spaces influence the “user” and stimulate encounters between people? Which messages, narratives, and emotions do spaces evoke?

The Raumwelten Art & Research stream sees international experts, creatives and curators present trends and developments of communication in space in different panels. Wallisser will curate - “Beyond Construction“ – Innovative approaches to space production.

http://www.raum-welten.com/

And you can catch a transcript of the talk Tobias gave on the ‘city of the future’ at the re:publica conference here: http://www.tea-after-twelve.com/all-issues/issue01/issue-01/chapter1/city-of-the-future/

Construction of the new Headquarters of Philips Lighting in Eindhoven, designed by LAVA, is nearing completion. Just 5 kilometres of steel wire and 1500 panels still to hang!

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD FEATURES LAVA'S SUSTAINABLE PLAN

29 July 2015

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel).

LAVA's concept to revitalise a brutalist residential building in Sydney is in today's Sydney Morning Herald.

"Rather than freezing architecture for an eternity, I think it's much better to adapt it to current circumstances," Bosse.

PAVILION PROJECT RAUMWELTEN SYMPOSIUM

6 November 2015

We have just opened our pavilion project for the Raumwelten Symposium. The inflatable structure is made of 100kg fabric and creates a space for up to 150 people. "More with less" at its best. And it will be re-used for the next three years!

The pavilion was designed by Tobias Wallisser and his student group, with Assistant Sebastian Schott, and Prof. Thomas Hundt. It was engineered by Form TL and built by Adunic from Switzerland.

Photo:Daniel Fuchs.

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel).

BAYREUTH YOUTH HOSTEL TAKES SHAPE

6 November 2015

The first walls are up for our Bayreuth youth hostel!!! The concrete structure will be completed by mid January 2016.

The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports youth hostel is a yardstick for the sports hostel of the future through innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities.

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel).

CHRISTMAS GREETINGS FROM THE LAVA TEAM

Wishing all our colleagues, clients and friends a very happy Christmas.

We look forward to working with you in 2016.

Our Russ the Bus for the Sydney Writers Festival brought books alive for over 4,000 school kids in western Sydney in November.

And the book bus will feature at the Sydney Writers Festival in May 2016 at Walsh Bay Sydney. READ MORE

Photo: Peter Murphy.

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel).

CONCRETE POUR FOR YOUTH HOSTEL

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel).

SYDNEY AIRPORT DUTY FREE OPENS

LAVA's Sydney harbour-inspired 'regionals' area for Heinemann at Sydney International Airport is now open!

Its the regional products duty free area and the design is based on the eroded sandstone rock faces of Sydney harbour.

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel).

CONSTRUCTION UNDERWAY ON BAYREUTH YOUTH HOSTEL

7 April 2016

New snapshot of construction underway on our Bayreuth Youth Hostel.

Tobias Wallisser, Berlin director, says: "The beam around the staircase was a difficult piece of engineering as this is an upstand beam that wraps around a void. The concrete work is done - all looks great. Now the woodwork has started."

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel).

BAYREUTH CONSTRUCTION UPDATE

21 MAY 2016

Bayreuth Youth Hostel from today's site visit. Two more weeks to 'Richtfest'!

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel

ORIGAMI MONKEYS VIVID FESTIVAL SYDNEY

4 June 2016

LAVA's digital origami monkeys are swinging in the trees in Chinatown, Sydney for Vivid Festival from 3-12 June.

“LAVA has previously created digital origami tigers and elephants. We were invited by the Market of Lights organiser Haymarket Chamber of Commerce to create the monkey light sculptures (in celebration of the Chinese New Year of the Monkey) to hang from the eight trees in the heart of Chinatown for local and international festival visitors of all ages to enjoy,” said Chris Bosse, director of LAVA.

The monkeys combine ancient Chinese lantern making methods with cutting edge digital design and fabrication technology, bringing east and west together through tradition and innovation.

The life size monkeys are made of a lightweight fully recyclable lampshade material, polypropylene. Low energy LED lighting bring the sculptures to life.

“LAVA is pleased to be working within the historical and culturally diverse area of Haymarket through the language of art and light with this installation. A popular figure in Chinese culture, many of the world's monkeys, apes and other primates are in danger of becoming extinct, so we also hope to draw attention to their plight,” he added.

LAVA worked with lighting designer Michael Day, Lecturer, School of Design, UTS, to create the installation.

The installation was launched during the Vivid Light Walk which features more than 60 spectacular light art installations, large-scale illuminations and mesmerising 3D-mapped building projections.

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel

BAYREUTH HOSTEL TOPS OUT

16 June 2016

LAVA Berlin team at the Topping Out ceremony of the Bayreuth Youth Hostel!

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel

FROM STORAGE CYLINDER TO CITY ICON

LAVA’s winning competition entry for an energy park and energy storage building in Heidelberg, Germany for the Stadtwerke Heidelberg Energie, will commence construction in 2017.

The existing cylindrical-shaped storage centre is turned into a dynamic sculpture, a city icon, a knowledge hub on sustainable energy and fully accessible to the public with city views.

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel

LAVA DESIGNS NEW RESTAURANT SYDNEY

27 January 2017

LAVA's design for a new restaurant, Olio Kensington Street, in inner Sydney, is inspired by the ingredients of Sicily.. luscious green olive oil, a leisurely stroll in the afternoon.

LAVA created a passeggiata, using Sicilian tiles, that flows through the restaurant and connects the kitchen, bar, dining and rooftop areas. This circulation system subdivides the floor area, separating serving spaces and served spaces and is also expressed in the ceiling with a layered green ribbon reflecting the layout.

Two pieces of ‘furniture’, free flowing joinery elements for kitchen and bar, and soft, dripping, LED-lit lines on the joinery, interpret the idea of flowing oil.

The restaurant is an exciting new addition to the transformation of the Chippendale area.

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel

YOUTH HOSTEL NEARS COMPLETION

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel

MEMBRANE PAVILION WITH JANET LAURENCE IGA BERLIN

LAVA’s membrane pavilion showcases a new installation, ‘Inside the Flower’, an experiential medicinal garden by Australian artist Janet Laurence at the International Garden Exposition (IGA) Berlin.

LAVA collaborated with Janet Laurence to materialise her laboratory-like space of discovery, an exhibition of medicinal plants, showcasing the diversity and ambivalence of botany.

Taking Laurence’s concept design LAVA created the sculptural pavilion based on the geometric structure of a medicinal plant, a fabricated cellular environment inspired by plant anatomy.

A transparent mesh membrane made of natural cotton is wrapped around the outside of the pavilion structure. The stainless steel cupola has twelve ribs to support a central ring, with two industrial perspex skylights forming a lens. This inflated translucent water bubble connects with tubes and hanging vials of plant fluids. Five rings of curvy shelves house cellular clusters to display the plants.

Both botanical display and performative space it allows visitors explore the plant world from the inside.

The Pavilion is on display until 15 October 2017.

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel

NEW CHILDREN'S WRITING CENTRE

12 NOVEMBER 2017

LAVA is excited to be working with the Sydney Story Factory on its new site in western Sydney!

It’s a heritage-listed cottage built in the late 1830s. During the 1840s and 50s it was the family home of Count Lucien de Broel Plater. A wealthy nobleman who had served in the army, the Count fled Poland after helping to lead an uprising against the Russians. He lived there with his 10 sons and daughters, and opened a confectionary shop.

We are working with Berents Project Management and The Glue Society on the design. More to come soon!

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel

NEW VIETNAM PROJECTS

12 February 2018

LAVA is celebrating the Lunar New Year by announcing new projects in Vietnam. We've have recently won two international competitions - for a mixed-use development Tien Bo City and the Detech company headquarters. And we’re designing a residential/office tower in Van Phu, an experiential Dilmah tea shop, and, with our HCMC-based design partner Module K, a series of kindergartens.

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel

ENERGY TOWER

25 May 2018

Excavations have started for the Future Energy Tower in Heidelberg!

In the coming months, the 2m deep foundations for the storage tank, which will have a diameter of 30m, will be built.

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel

KINDERGARDEN UNDER CONSTRUCTION

2 August 2018

LAVA' s new kindergarten is under construciton in Vinh Vietnam. Our partners are Module K.

EcoKid Kindergarten features an indoor-outdoor playful, safe and fun environment for the next generation of Vietnamese children. A 5,000 sqm series of buildings create indoor and outdoor spaces that are playful and safe while making an architectural statement. The buildings form three courtyards and playgrounds with a forest in between, with breezes from the adjacent lake adding to the natural experience. World-class interiors will educate, challenge and entertain children.

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel

The terminal’s ovoid form recalls the Latvian ladybug and appears to float above the landscape. Two thirty-metre high amber-coloured ovoid windows flank the main entrance that face stands of oaks and linden trees. Nature and artifice meld in the central courtyard with its grand oak tree.

The geometry of the terminal structure is based on surface tension. Services are located centrally, below the building, designed with long-term operation and maintenance in mind.

CLASSROOM OF THE FUTURE COMPETITION

29 November 2011

LAVA and ARUP received a ‘Jury Special Mention’ in an Australian competition to design relocatables - classrooms for the future.LAVA and ARUP`s proposal was one of 116 submissions exploring diverse ideas for future proofing relocatable learning spaces.Relocatables are the decades old, utilitarian solution to changing demographics, remote community needs, and disasters such as fires, floods and cyclones. However often they are perceived as cheap, dull, unattractiveand unpleasant spaces.ARUP and LAVA want to turn this idea upside down and create prefabricated spaces, that are sustainable, practical, cost-effective and at the same time fun and exciting to be in.The aim of the ideas competition was to produce effective spaces for 21st century learning that are sustainable, integrate with the landscape and connect with the school environment, suitable for prefabrication and mass customisation. The exciting solutions are on show from 12 – 22 December 2011 at the Wunderlich Gallery, University of Melbourne.The Future Proofing School competition was funded as an Australian Research Council Linkage Project.

MARTIAN EMBASSY OPENS

Today Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO, Governor of New South Wales, officially opened the Martian Embassy in Sydney.

She loved the whale/time tunnel interior created by the LAVA team with our amazing partners Will O'Rourke and The Glue Society.

The Martian Embassy was designed as an immersive space of oscillating plywood ribs brought to life by red planet light and sound projections for The Sydney Story Factory, a not-for-profit creative writing centre for young people in Sydney. Cath Keenan, pictured with Chris Bosse, is the director of the Factory.

The design is inspired by the stuff great stories are made of - Moby Dick, H. G. Wells' Time Machine and 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick.

The concept is to awaken creativity in kids, so the design acts as a trigger, firing up the engines of imagination. It’s an intergalactic journey - from the embassy, at the street entrance, to the shop full of red planet traveller essentials, to the classroom. By the time kids reach the writing classes they have forgotten they are in “school”.

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THE BOSSE BRIDGE!

LAVA have realised their first bridge design in Europe, a pedestrian bridge in Rotterdam, inspired by the efficiency and beauty in nature’s geometries.

FDN Engineering and Construction have named it the ‘Bosse Bridge’ and the 19m long bridge made from nine cubes of concrete has just been constructed in Rotterdam.

FDN’s demonstration project aims to show that ultra high strength concrete bridges with a very thin concrete deck are possible. It can carry a twelve tonne vehicle and the modular system means a bridge 30m x 5m can be transported in twenty-foot containers to all parts of the world economically.

DISPLAY SUITE FOR GREENLAND CENTRE OPENS

10 December 2013

LAVA has designed a display suite for a new mixed-use tower in Sydney that merges natural materials and fluid harmonious space with high tech fabrication technologies. The freeform furniture and curvy walls and ceilings take the visitor through a journey of the new building.

The marketing suite design combines LAVA’s creativity and innovation with PTW’s longstanding track record in the delivery of world-class buildings.

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The sculptural pavilion, at the 2014 Light + Building international trade show in Frankfurt, used a ribbon-based routing concept derived from visitor flow simulations.

Natures’ swarm principles are found in both animal and human group behaviour. In unfamiliar buildings, cities and emergencies, for example, people will follow others but still keep their distance. Flocks of birds clearly reveal these principles of attraction, repulsion and alignment.

They used a combination of custom-made and open-source code and algorithms used in the gaming industry.

LAVA was involved in the initial concept and layout for the pavilion. The idea was to create a brand experience that united all Philips business groups, from consumer to professional lighting, in one fair stand. An elliptical ribbon route wrapped four elements: entrance with special light installations, a light-dome, market-arena and a VIP grandstand.

NEW 'Y' SHAPED YOUTH HOSTEL BAYREUTH GERMANY

24 SEPTEMBER 2014

Tobias Wallisser will be one of the curators for an international symposium in Ludwigsburg in October. "Raumwelten" examines Scenography, Architecture and Media: How do spaces influence the “user” and stimulate encounters between people? Which messages, narratives, and emotions do spaces evoke?

The Raumwelten Art & Research stream sees international experts, creatives and curators present trends and developments of communication in space in different panels. Wallisser will curate - “Beyond Construction“ – Innovative approaches to space production.

http://www.raum-welten.com/

And you can catch a transcript of the talk Tobias gave on the ‘city of the future’ at the re:publica conference here: http://www.tea-after-twelve.com/all-issues/issue01/issue-01/chapter1/city-of-the-future/

The letter ‘Y’ is the shape of a new youth hostel in Bayreuth, Germany.

LAVA’s design is a yardstick for the sports hostel of the future through innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities.

LAVA chose the letter ‘Y’ shape because the geometry creates a building shape that interweaves interior and exterior space and generates a connective and beautiful central space offering expansive views and multiple openings to the sport fields and gardens. The central atrium is a hub for offline and online entertainment, interaction and communication. Here a skylight provides natural daylight to a central amphitheatre that connects the different levels, whilst horizontal and diagonal sightlines direct guests to different building functions.

There are flexible room walls with contemporary modular ‘built-in furniture’ elements; and rooms, grounds and sports fields are all wheelchair accessible.

GROUND BREAKING EVENT FOR BAYREUTH YOUTH HOSTEL

17 July 2015

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel).

An official breaking ground event was held with to mark the beginning of construction of the Bayreuth Youth Hostel in Bavaria Germany.

LAVA unveiled renderings, perspective sections, elevations, diagrams of toilets, showers and guest rooms, and showcased a mock up of rooms at the official construction ceremony. LAVA directors and team members plus the Lord Mayor of Bayreuth, the president and the directors of the Bavarian chapter of the German Youth Hostel Association and members of the Bavarian Parliament attended the event.

The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

CONSTRUCTION STARTS ON CHINA TOWERS

30 October 2015

Construction has started on our high rise towers in Hangzhou, called the Zheijang Gate.

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel).

RUSS THE BUS GOES ON THE ROAD

6 November 2015

Russ the Bus is now on the road taking books to kids across western Sydney. LAVA transformed an old bus into a vibrant reading space.

More images soon.

Photo: Prudence Upton

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel).

DIGITAL ORIGAMI ELEPHANTS

LAVA has designed an installation of 145 digital origami elephants for the Thailand (Small) Festival of Light which opens on 15 December, 2015. The festival will commemorate the 2015 Bangkok bombing.

The elephants will be installed on one of the skywalks that run up above street level at Ratchaprasong Junction, in the heart of Bangkok, site of the bombing.

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel).

KACST HEADQUARTERS UP AND AWAY!

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel).

RUSS ROCKS

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel).

ZHEIJANG GATE PROGRESS

5 February 2016

Up, up and away - our Zheijang Gate is fast taking shape!!!!

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel).

LAVA MONKEYS FOR FESTIVAL

LAVA's 38 tree-loving fire-red Monkey Light Sculptures will be the highlight of the Market of Lights 2016 in Haymarket Sydney from Friday 3 – Sunday 12 June 2016.

http://www.haymarketchamber.org.au/node/2520

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel

ZHEJIANG GATE TOWER PLANS UNVEILED

10 June 2016

LAVA has unveiled a new project under construction in China.

LAVA’s masterplan for the mixed-use development consists of five buildings housing offices, residential, and retail. It features fluid building masses, improved positioning of the towers from different viewing directions, logical pedestrian movement and the removal of cars from the complex.

The twin towers form an iconic entrance to the city of Hangzhou. The high-rise towers are an interpretation of the Chinese characters meaning ‘gate’ or entrance to a city. Utilising extensive view studies the tower ensemble was positioned so it is recognisable as a twin structure, a gate, from both near and far. LAVA articulated the façade as two groups of long vertical fins wrapped around the buildings, a shimmering façade of fins. Fluid lines create zones within the tower elevations, whilst different colours of glass and varying depths of vertical fin elements generate refracted light effects animating the façade.

Construction on the twin towers starts in 2017, and the other buildings are under construction now.

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel

REGIONAL DUTY FREE SYDNEY AIRPORT OPENS

29 July 2016

LAVA’s new ‘regional products duty free area’ has opened at Sydney International Airport.

Its an abstract representation of Sydney Harbour with headlands, inlets, coves and beaches. Featuring living Australian bush, the cave-like shelves create an experiential showcase for regional Sydney products.

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel

LAVA DESIGNS DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES EXHIBITION

2 November 2016

LAVA has designed the recently opened digital technologies exhibition “Out of Hand: Materialising the Digital” which runs at the Powerhouse Museum Sydney until June 2017.

The immersive space is a trajectory through the history of digital manufacturing, featuring works by more than 60 artists, designers and architects from around the world, including Zaha Hadid, Iris van Herpen and Ron Arad.

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel

TIGERS IN TORONTO LIGHT FESTIVAL

4 February 2017

Our Tigers are on display at the inaugural Toronto Light Festival until March 12

http://www.torontolightfest.com

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel

ZHEIJANG GATE TOWER NEARS COMPLETION

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel

HEIDELBERG ENERGY STORAGE CENTRE BREAKS GROUND

LAVA’s design will transform the new water tank, a cylindrical-shaped storage centre, into a dynamic sculpture, a city icon, a knowledge hub on sustainable energy, fully accessible to the public, a strong symbol of the transition towards renewables.

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel

LAVA chose a ‘Y’ shape for the 180-bed hostel because it cleverly generates a connective central space and interweaves the interior and exterior spaces, offering expansive views and multiple accessible openings to the sports fields and gardens.

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel

GRANDEUR PALACE

Chris Bosse is in Hanoi to sign the design contract for the Grandeur Palace Pham Hung, a new mixed use complex for living, working, shopping and leisure.

A skydeck connects three towers and provides communal facilties such as pools and barbecue areas, jogging tracks and cafes and waterfalls.

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel

STORY FACTORY PARRAMATTA

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel

NEW PROJECT IN VIETNAM

PNEUMATIC STRUCTURE RAUMWELTEN

29 November 2018

Tobias Wallisser with the Raumwelten and students of architecture at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design and the Stuttgart Technology University of Applied Sciences designed this temporary, pneumatic structure.